The
last 40 years have been tumultuous ones for Catholicism. Seminaries emptied,
priests and nuns left their vocations, people dissented from basic teachings,
and children received poor catechesis. It didn’t used to be this way.
What happened? An unsung hero during his time, the late Fr. Richard Gilsdorf
helps answer such questions by giving a precise and thorough explanation of
developments in the Church since Vatican II. Indeed, no one can fully hope to
understand the state of Catholicism today without this important work.

“Fr.
Gilsdorf was a priest’s priest, and was one of the first to grasp the
crisis that gripped the Church after the Council. ”
—Rev. Kenneth Baker, S.J., editor-in-chief, Homiletic & Pastoral Review